musicians

are any of you musicians out there. if so, what instroment do you play

I play piano, and like to jam with my son, when he's willing.

Used to play jazz on the tenor sax..- too old now.

 ya right. there is no such thing as too old to play sax

by the way. my grandpa just started playing clarinet and he was born in 1930

Well, yes..- but I suffered a stroke sometime ago and cannot play anymore..  You are right about never too old play, but you need two hands to play the sax..- I'm OK though,- and you couldn't know.. Maybe we can play a game of chess?

 thats a shame. we should play chess some time.

well, you're right about never too old play,- but I suffered a stroke some time ago and you need two hands to play the sax..- You could not know that.. - Maybe we can play a game of chess, you and I, OK ?

I play the baritone, or uphonium, however you want to spell it or say it for that matter. but I play it netherless

Violin, saxophone, voice.... first two very badly. The last one is, alas, rusty -- haven't been in a choir for going on 15 years now.

I try to play guitar. Several times I was even getting fairly good at it. The problem is that I stop playing regularly for months or even years. To stay good you have to keep playing. Now my fingers are getting older and just don't appreciate what I try make them do. That's probably one of the reasons I'm picking up chess again. My fingers can deal with that.

 I have always wonderd what violin is like. is it fun?

 I play guitare two. I find that for me it is just lack of motivation. I would like to be good because then I would enjoy playing more but I know that only practicing can get me up there.

It was great fun when I was a kid. I played from about 3rd grade to 12th grade (went to school in the US in those days). I was fascinated by it, but just never really had a true talent for it, so never progressed passed 4th chair in my provincial high school orchestra. Without that genuine talent to play well, my interest waned considerably when I got older (and the instrument is quite expensive when you no longer get a free one from the school ).

But good or bad, my actual playing was irrelevant compared to what I learned just being dedicated to an instrument and being part of an orchestra as a child. I find it absolutely a crime how many music programmes are folding, both in the US and the UK.

Music is an integral part of a good education, in my opinion, and should have nothing to do with how good the young musicians ever turn out to be, or if this high school or that ever produces a professional musician (which mine did, once or twice, actually!). It's one of the things that helps form the mind and character, and I cannot fathom my childhood without it... I really feel for kids nowadays who won't have the chance because of all the budget cuts I keep hearing about that keep cutting music programmes.

I play the piano. I am going to take the grade 1 exam in June. [I haven't been playing piano for very long]

I play the piano! went for 4 years =]

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